Science and religion

Abstract

The criteria for selecting topics for this chapter arise mainly out of a piece of research relating religious education (RE) to science (Bausor and Poole 2002, 2003). This involved a search of the English Local Education Authorities' Agreed Syllabuses for Religious Education for entries about science-and-religion. Much of this is reflected in the subsequent (2004) Non-Statutory National Framework for Religious Education. Topics that appear most relevant to education are: • worldviews and the nature and scope of science; explanations; laws and the concept of miracles; relationships between science and religion • creation and origins; big bang; young-Earth creationism • evolution/chance/design and ‘ID' • language – models and metaphors, literary genre.